In the fall of 1980, the remote, rural Gold Rush town of Oakhurst, California, became home to
Sierra On-Line, a computer game manufacturer that emerged as one of the most successful …

With 10 million copies sold and 500 million dollars of revenue, the 11th installment of
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018), showed how a …

This article proposes the study of unexceptional consoles--devices that have been relatively
uncelebrated by either the public or the academy and thus sit outside the standard canon of …

This paper focuses on how a games' characters and story reflect changing cultural norms in
the period during which a game series was developed and released. This is done through …

In Nina Huntemann wrote,“It isn't difficult to find feminist game studies, or feminist
gamers.” 1 This is no less true eight years later. It isn't difficult to find feminist game studies …

This dissertation contextualizes young people's experiences with and women's nostalgic
memories of videogames from the highly acclaimed Legend of Zelda series through looking …

Games journalism is a key site for understanding games culture (Kirkpatrick, 2015; Nieborg
and Foxman, 2023; Nooney, 2020). As Kirkpatrick (2015) has found for instance, they …

This paper examines the narratives and themes present in two pieces of sf media about
videogames: a 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode entitled 'The Game'and David …

In this thesis, I built a PC game called Mira's Cleansing Services. It is a sidescroller game
that follows the story of a female exorcist for-hire who is also a high school student. Using …